Quotes About Mental health

I talk about postpartum depression and all these things I don't hear a lot of women talking about on TV.

I truly did deal with postpartum depression and no one pointed it out to me, and when you are in it you don't know. I figured it out later on my own.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

I can gain 20 pounds in a heartbeat.

I did speak to a counsellor after hitting rock bottom. It really did help, talking to somebody that didn't know me and just pouring my heart out to them in a few sessions.

I don't know about you, but I feel like my day begins by blinking my eyes open, grabbing my phone, and just pouring poison directly into my cerebellum.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

I had a mental breakdown while doing my Ph.D. at Cambridge, soon after I cut off contact with my parents, and I started seeing the university counsellor, one of the best decisions I ever made. There's something very nourishing in setting aside an hour a week to talk.

I'm a very open person. I like to talk a lot about what I'm going through. It's how I cope with things.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

I really struggle with my anxiety, I have done since I was a child. When I look back into it, I don't know what happened to make me the way I am, but it's definitely affected my anxiety levels and I've spent most of my life looking for coping mechanisms.

I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.

It's hard to understand how you're feeling, or you don't even know. That's why sometimes people seek counseling.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I am not as crazy as people think.

Both creatively and organizationally, being medicated has helped me immensely.

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

I think I'm my hardest critic. Sometimes it's kind of bad because I'm so hard on myself and sometimes I get down.

I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my family, came completely out of the blue after 59 years on this earth with no issues that we knew about, at least - sort of a normal run-of-the-mill guy who did his job and came home and had a family.

I don't think there is a true cure for PTSD.

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

Social media can be incredibly damaging for impressionable people.

The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It's more about finding yourself. It's really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that 'Huge' was really about the weight that we carry around mentally.